[Footnote 81: Le Croisic is in the Loire Inferieure,
at the south-east corner of Brittany. It has
now a good bathing establishment, and is much frequented
by French people; but sardine-fishing and the crystallizing
of sea-salt are still its standing occupations.]

[Footnote 82: The details of this worship as
carried on in the island opposite Le Croisic, and
which Mr. Browning describes, are mentioned by Strabo.]

[Footnote 83: The story of Paul Desforges Maillard
forms the subject of a famous play, Piron’s
“Metromanie.”]

[Footnote 84: It is also, and perhaps chiefly,
in this case, a pun on the meaning of the plural noun
“cenci,” “rags,” or “old
rags.” The cry of this, frequent in Rome,
was at first mistaken by Shelley for a voice urging
him to go on with his play. Mr. Browning has used
it to indicate the comparative unimportance of his
contribution to the Cenci story. The quoted Italian
proverb means something to the same effect: that
every trifle will press in for notice among worthier
matters.]

[Footnote 85: That of the Gregorian chant:
a cadence concluding on the dominant instead of the
key-note.]

[Footnote 86: We have a conspicuous instance
of this in “Pippa Passes.”]